In the basement of the Barletta Castle, CORNERSTONES opens on October 12, an exhibition curated by Giusy Caroppo and promoted by OPERAOMNIA, a project directed by Francesco Asselta and supported by the Puglia Region( “Radici e Ali” call).
“CORNERSTONES”: pillars, hinges, sacrum of the creative and educational system. A conceptual allusion that finds confirmation in this trans-disciplinary project, born in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Foggia from an idea of the outgoing director Pietro Di Terlizzi, which aims to present different disciplines through valuable works by some of the major Italian artists who have taught or still hold the role of teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts of Foggia (Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia): BIANCO-VALENTE, ANTONIO BIASIUCCI, DOMENICO BORRELLI, RAFFAELE FIORELLA, PAOLO GRASSINO, IGOR IMHOFF, VITO MAIULLARI, MARCO NERI, PERINO&VELE, LEONARDO PIVI, MARIA GRAZIA PONTORNO, PIERLUIGI PUSOLE, GIUSEPPE TEOFILO, NICOLA VERLATO.
The works – sculptures, photographs, paintings, multimedia installations – are distributed in the spaces according to a storytelling that emotionally involves the viewer, in an itinerary that facilitates the teaching of the languages of contemporary art for a heterogeneous target. An exhibition with a dark imprint, punctuated by essential chromatic flashes, similar to the youthful or in any case generational imagination, for the themes of particular urgency and topicality suggested by the works installed. From the hybrid and alienating characters of Domenico Borrelli, to the primordial sculpture in sounding stone by Vito Maiullari, to the metamorphic graphics of the contemporary bestiary by Raffaele Fiorella; from the monumental skull - “Ciò che resta” - by Paolo Grassino, to the evocative maps in the projections by Bianco-Valente; from Maria Grazia Pontormo's video "Super Hu.fo_Voynich", winner of the Humanism Art Prize, dedicated to the relationship between contemporary art and artificial intelligence, to the urban, cultural, evocative landscapes of the warm painting of Pierluigi Pusole and the cold painting of Marco Neri; in the anthropology that transforms into the aesthetics of bread as of the skull, photographed by Antonio Biasiucci, to the conceptual and changing value of space and color in the extroflexions of Giuseppe Teofilo; and then, a pungent, transgressive and everyday lightness, expressed in the characterful papier-mâché of Perino&Vele and in the exquisite pop mosaic of Leonardo Pivi; from the enchanted world of an ancient dreamy youth, in Nicola Verlato's "Self-portrait at the age of 5 when I discover Caravaggio and become a painter", to the strong effect of Igor Imhoff's b/w video clip for Marvin's Oblivion, a dramatic imagery - in sign, rhythm and taste - dear to Generation Z. The exhibition adheres to the "Circuito del Contemporaneo" platform.